On Monday, the UK's High Court ruled that all UK internet service providers must block access to The Pirate Bay website, after UK music publishers claimed the site encouraged online piracy of their content. This week, the site's organizers posted up their response to the High Court's decision on their blog, comparing the ruling to censorship of internet content in countries such as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The blog post states:

Today news was out that the UK high court has decided that TPB is "massively infringing on copyright". The facts that no copyright is being infringed upon here at the site was not a welcome fact, so that was ignored apparantly. Noone from TPB was invited to the court case, which would be normal to do in a democracy. This is not the first time this happens, it's been the same in most countries we're censored in. We have no right to speak since we're not rich.

The post also points out that UK residents have a number of ways to circumvent the ISP block to The Pirate Bay site, including accessing a VPN service, using a darknet, signing on Google's DNS servers or the OpenDNS servers and more. They also urge UK citizens to mail their ISPs to ask them to appeal the High Court ruling, along with contacting local government officials. The post adds, "But don't forget that we can't allow this s*** to happen. Next time they're coming for something else."